Lord eldon, Lord Chancellor off and on from 1801 to 1827, is one of history's more unfortunate figures, remembered today (if at all) as an indecisive buffoon lampooned in Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" for never reaching a judgment. Yet his prudence laid the groundwork for almost two centuries of company law when he ruled in 1812 that courts should not be required to manage "every playhouse and brewhouse in the kingdom".
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